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...didn’t stop, I just changed my toolset,” Parker joked while sitting in his office with the lights off, classical music playing in the background. “I’m tenure track at Harvard, which is in many ways a more precarious position than being on the Pakistani border...

Author: By Nathan C. Strauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From the Battlefield to the Bench | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

...said that when he went to the online Web site for the exhibit, the main headline he saw read “killing” and “murder.” Fredman said he could understand how a Harvard student audience without much background knowledge could take away a distorted image...

Author: By Vidya B. Viswanathan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Israeli Soldiers Discuss Exhibit | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

Thus, the dilemma for the Chinese leadership is clear. "They need to get this under control, but to do so without a lot of brutality," the diplomat says. The reason for that is clear enough: the memory of Tiananmen Square, undeniably, now hangs in the background as the crisis in Tibet unfolds in this, the year of China's grand coming-out party. The scale of the unrest in the Tibet Autonomous Region - as well as the threat they pose to the Communist Party leadership - doesn't compare to the massive political demonstrations in Tiananmen Square in 1989, which were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tibet and the Ghosts of Tiananmen | 3/17/2008 | See Source »

...improve the tense relationship between U.S. museums and foreign governments, both Ebbinghaus and Cuno recommend a twofold strategy: performing stringent background checks on objects while finding new ways for museums to permanently acquire artifacts...

Author: By Edward F. Coleman and Elsa S. Kim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Illegal Exhibits | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

...track.Harvard’s coach told him to get his application in early, and a week after he submitted it in early December, he got a response: likely. Barjon says he will be attending.Tyler G. Funk, also a track and field athlete from Dallas with a similar academic background, says that the likely letter he received from Harvard made the recruiting process much easier for him.“In recruiting if you don’t act quickly enough, you lose your spot as quickly as you get your opportunity,” Funk said.Link, on the other...

Author: By Lingbo Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Likely Letters on the Rise | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

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